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Feb. 8.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to view
the indentures of Thomas de Melcheburn and his fellows, merchants of the realm, and the writs to divers collectors of customs, and to cause allowance to be made to the merchants for
the sums paid by them by virtue of those writs, as in the parliament held at Westminster in the 17th year of the reign, the king
granted that all merchants and their executors should have allowance in
the subsidy, after a certain form, for debts due for wool taken from them
at Durdraght, and the king ordered the collectors of customs in divers
ports to make such allowances, and the custom and subsidy having been
granted to Thomas and his fellows for a certain time, the king at their
supplication, ordered the collectors to be at London on certain days, now
past, to render account for the customs to Thomas and his fellows, and
they rendered such accounts, as the king is informed, and certain indentures made between the king and Thomas and his fellows contain that
allowance shall be made to them in the customs for the sums allowed to
the merchants as aforesaid, for wool taken at Durdraght, and to other
persons for other causes. |
Feb. 12.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Thomas Gentilcors, deceased. |
Feb. 4.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons and chamberlains of the exchequer, Dublin.
Because the king is informed that several persons, holding divers offices,
bailiwicks and custodies in Ireland by commissions under the great seal of
England, certain of whom have accounted for the issues and profits thereof
at the exchequer and are in great arrears and others who are bound to
render accounts, depart to places beyond, and because they have not lands,
goods or chattels whereof the arrears may be levied, and by which they
may be distrained: the king orders the treasurer and others to inspect
such accounts and other rolls and memoranda of the exchequer, and to
certify the treasurer and barons of the exchequer in England of the names
of those who owe such arrears or other debts and who have not lands and
goods whereof they may be levied, and also of those who avoid rendering
accounts and making satisfaction of the king's debts, and who eloign themselves from that land, and have not wherewith they may be distrained
there, together with the sums due and the causes why they are due, so that
the king may cause what is right to be done against those who have lands
and goods in England and against others who may be found in that realm. |
Feb. 16.
Westminster. |
To John de Wesenham and his fellows, merchants, to whom the king
granted all the customs and subsidies in the ports of the realm, to hold
under a certain form. Order to pay to John de Stryvelyn, or to his
attorney, 100 marks for Michaelmas term last, as the king granted to him
200 marks to be received yearly in the ports of Newcastle upon Tyne and
Hertilpole, and afterwards at John's petition, showing that 227 marks of
of that grant were in arrear to him, and that he had received no payment
in the said ports because the lading of wool, hides and wool-fells had not
been done there for a long time, the king ordered the collectors of customs
in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull to pay those 227 marks to John or to
his attorney, and John has not yet received any payment of those arrears,
as the king has learned from his plaint and the king wishes him to be
satisfied for the said term. By C. |
Feb. 15.
Westminster. |
To Robert Bertrem, escheator in co. Northumberland. Order to assign
dower to Cecily late the wife of John Fitz Henry, tenant in chief, of all the
lands which belonged to her husband, in the presence of William del Wode,
to whom the king committed the custody of those lands, to hold until the
heir should come of age, if he choose to attend, upon her taking oath that
she will not marry without the king's licence. |
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Jan. 31.
Langley. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to pay to Henry Pycard or to his attorney, 20s. of the
subsidy on every sack of wool taken out of that port until he is satisfied
for 9,000l. of a great sum contained in an indenture made with him, in
accordance with agreements made between him and the king on 28 January
last. By K. |
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The like to the collectors of customs in the following ports, for the
following sums, to wit:— |
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The collectors in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull for 6,000l. |
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The collectors in the port of Boston for 6,233l. 6s. 8d. |
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The collectors in the port of Southampton for 800l. |
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The collectors in the port of Ipswich for 500l. |
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The collectors in the port of Great Yarmouth for 400l. |
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The collectors in the port of Lenn for 400l. |
Jan. 28.
Westminster. |
To John Dengayne of Teversham, sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon,
and escheator there. Order to pay wages to John de Romeseye, Richard
fitz Johan Warde, John Lovetot, John Yvor, Master John de Cobbeham
and Alexander Chap of Wolfreton, who are maintained in the king's hall,
Cambridge, by his alms, beyond the number of thirty-four scholars previously staying there, to wit to each of them as to the other scholars, so
long as he remains in those offices. By p.s. [17227.] |
Feb. 3.
Westminster. |
To John de Barton bailiff of the hundreds of Taverham, Blofeld and
Homelierd, co. Norfolk. Order to pay to John de Monte Gomery what is
in arrear to him of the 36l. yearly of the ferm of those hundreds, from
26 April, in the 14th year of the reign, and to be answerable to him for
that sum yearly henceforth, as the king granted to John de Monte Gomery,
100l. to be received yearly for life, to wit 60l. at the exchequer and 40l.
due to the king of the manors of Dalham and Brodefeld co. Suffolk, and
John surrendered the king's letters to chancery to be cancelled, and on the
said 26 April the king granted that he should receive 26l. yearly of the
ferm of the city of Norwich and 26l. of the ferm of the said hundreds, in
recompence for the said 40l., so that he should render at the exchequer
yearly the excess of 12l. Et erat patens. |
Feb. 13.
Westminster. |
To the bailiffs and citizens of Canterbury for the present or the future.
Order to pay to William son and heir of John son of William Condy of
Sandwich, 30l. yearly of the ferm of that city, to wit 20l. at Michaelmas
until peace is made, and 10l. at Easter until William de Clynton earl of
Huntingdon is provided with 50l. of land or rent or with 10l. thereof, as
on 7 July in the 14th year of the reign, in recompence for the ransom
which pertained to John for John de Eyle, taken by him in war at the port
of Swyne, and whom the king caused to be delivered to his friends of
Flanders by the advice of the council, the king granted to John the office
of bailiff of Sandwich to hold for himself and his heirs for rendering for
that bailiwick which in time of peace used to render 70l. yearly at the
exchequer, 40l. yearly when peace has been restored, as traffic is impeded
there during the war, and the king remitted the remaining 30l., and the
king also granted that he should hold the bailiwick and answer for the
issues thereof, and for the remaining 30l. of the ferm he should receive 30l.
of the ferm of that city, to wit 20l. until peace should be made and 10l.
until the said earl is provided with 50l. of land and rent, to whom the
king granted 50l. of the said bailiwick or ferm of Sandwich until he should
be so provided. Et erat patens. |
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To John Loveryk. Order not to intermeddle further with the said
bailiwick, which is in his custody, as the king has ordered Bartholomew de
Burgherssh, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, to
take the fealty of the heir of John son of William and to cause that bailiwick to be delivered to him. |
Feb. 17.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand for the tenth and fifteeenth made upon the prioress and sisters of
the house of St. James without Canterbury and to discharge thereof both
them and the collectors of the same as on its being found by inquisition
taken by John de Vieleston, late sheriff of Kent, that the lands, goods and
faculties pertaining to that house are worth nothing beyond the maintenance
of the prioress and sisters and their serjeants and for other charges incumbent
on the house and do not suffice for them, the king ordered the treasurer and
barons to supersede the demand made upon them for the 15th and 16th
years of the reign, by reason of their goods in co. Kent. By C. |
Feb. 16.
Westminster. |
To the same. Like order to discharge the master and brethren of the
hospital of Newerk (Novi operis) St. Mary Strode, and the taxers and
collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Kent, of that tenth and fifteenth
for the second year, touching them, as they have shown the king that the
hospital is so slenderly endowed that the goods thereof hardly suffice for the
maintenance of the master and brethren and for alms and other charges,
and if it be charged with the aids granted by the community of the realm
it will behove them to diminish the said alms, yet the said taxers and
collectors distrain them to pay that tenth and fifteenth, whereupon they
have besought the king to provide a remedy. By C. |
Feb. 14.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to allow Reginald Forester, sheriff of Surrey and
Sussex, the costs and expenses which they shall find him to have sustained
in the carriage, by the king's order, of 16 tuns of wheat flour from Fysshebourne near Chichester and of 116 quarters of gross oats from Farnham, to
the port of Portesmuth and which the king caused to be there delivered to
Peter Gretheved, his clerk, upon his passage to Gascony. By C. |
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Feb. 16.
Westminster. |
To John de Coggeshale, escheator in cos. Essex and Hertford. Order not
to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Piriton, co. Hertford,
restoring the issues thereof to Emma late the wife of William Corbet, as
the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that William at
his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in chief but that he held
the said moiety with Emma as of her right, of the gift of Thomas de
Wassyngle to John de Oddyngsels and the said Emma, then his wife, and to
the heirs of the said John, by a fine levied in the king's court, by his
licence, and that the moiety is held in chief as parcel of the barony of
Ulverleye, which barony Emma now holds. |
Feb. 15.
Westminster. |
To Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place
in the port of London. Order to deliver to Alice de Bedyngfeld, damsel of
the chamber of Queen Philippa, a tun of Gascon wine for the present year,
in accordance with the king's grant to her of a tun of such wine, to be
received yearly for life. |
Feb. 10.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to supersede
the payment of 500l. of the 2,054 marks 8s. 8d. which the king ordered
them to pay to John de Pulteneye and to pay to him the third penny of the
customs and subsidies in that port until he is satisfied for the 1,554 marks
8s. 8d. remaining, as the king ordered them to pay John in the name of
Thomas de Melchebourn and their fellows, merchants of England, the
third penny of the said customs and subsidies, until he should be satisfied
for 2,054 marks 8s. 8d. in part payment of 3,036l. 8s. 8d. of a sum of
4,400l. in which the king was bound to those merchants, but the king has
satisfied Thomas and his fellows for 500l. of that sum in another place. |
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By K. and C. |
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To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Like order to
supersede the payment to John of 97l. 11s. 4d. of 300 marks, and to pay
him the third penny of the customs in that port until he is satisfied for
102l. 8s. 8d. remaining of the 300 marks. By K. and C. |
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To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Like order to
supersede the payment of 200 marks to John. By K. and C. |
Feb. 15.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to pay to William de Notton and
Richard de Birton, whom the king appointed with other lieges to be
justices to hear and determine divers trespasses and felonies in that county,
10s. and 5s. a day respectively, for their wages for the time that they are
attendant upon the premises, of the money of the issues of the fines and
amercements adjudged before them. |
Feb. 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Roger Bretoun, who is so sick and broken by age
that he cannot exercise the duties of that office. |
Feb. 23.
Westminster. |
To John de Wesenham, to whom the king granted all the customs and
subsidies in the ports of England, under a certain form. Order to pay to
William, marquis of Juliers, or to Tilemannus de Werda and William
Muschet, his attorneys, 300l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with
the king's grant to him of 600l. to be received yearly of the customs in
the port of Boston, and with the king's order to the collectors of customs
in that port to pay him 300l. for that term, and Henry de Alyngton and
Philip de Ratheby collectors in that port, have certified that nothing has
been paid to the marquis for the said term. |
Feb. 10.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Whereas the king granted the office of
gauger of wine in England to Thomas de Colleye, his yeoman, to hold for
life, receiving the customary fees therein, and now Thomas has shown the
king that merchants and others cause the wine brought to the port of that
city, to be withdrawn secretly from the ships by night and by day and taken
to private places in the city, leaving the places where the wine ought to be
landed and gauged, so that Thomas has no view of the wine and cannot
exercise his office of gauger: the king therefore orders the sheriff to view
the bills of lading of all ships coming with wine to that city, and to detain
them until sufficient security is found by the masters of the ships that no
wine shall be taken from them in tuns or pipes before the fee of the gauger
has been fully paid to Thomas or to him who supplies his place, and that
done to deliver the bills to the masters, provided always that the wine is
gauged by Thomas or his attorney. By K. |
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The like to the following, to wit: — |
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The mayor and bailiffs of Kyngeston upon Hull. |
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The mayor and bailiffs of Great Yarmouth. |
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The mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. |
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The bailiffs of Boston. |
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The mayor and bailiffs of Lenn. |
Feb. 26.
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To Reginald de Conductu and Adam Lucas sometime collectors of the
custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to
render account of all issues of the customs and subsidies from Midsummer
last, to John de Wesenham, Simon his brother and Richard de Salteby, the
king's merchants, and to pay them the money received, as the king has
granted all the customs and subsidies to those merchants, to be received
from the said feast until Michaelmas following, and thereafter for a year,
except the customs of wine, for rendering a certain yearly sum. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The collectors of the petty custom in the port of London. |
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Thomas de Swanlond, late one of the collectors of customs in the port
of Kyngeston upon Hull, and Adam Tirwhit the younger, now one
of the collectors of customs there. |
Feb. 15.
Westminster. |
To William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before
the king. Whereas at the suit of John Gategang, showing the king that
he was indicted of the death John de Denton at Newcastle upon Tyne
before John de Moubray, Peter de Richemond and their fellows, justices
appointed to enquire concerning that death, to hear and determine the
felony and do certain other things contained in their commission, and also
by the appeal which Elizabeth, late the wife of John de Denton, made
against him, he was taken and imprisoned in the Marshalsea, and
beseeching the king to order the restitution of his lands with the issues
thereof in consideration that he could not answer in person owing to his
detention in prison, as his lands were seised by order of the justices because
he did not come before them to answer the indictment; the king ordered
John and Peter to certify him thereupon in chancery: this certificate the
king sends to the justices under the half seal, ordering them to inspect it,
and after hearing John's reasons, to do what is right in accordance with
the law and custom of England upon the delivery of the said lands and
issues. |
Feb. 26.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to render to John de Wesenham, Simon his brother
and Richard de Salteby, the king's merchants, account for the issue of the
customs and subsidies from Midsummer last, and to pay them all the
money received, as the king has granted to those merchants all the customs
and subsidies from the said feast for a certain time. |
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Feb. 18.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand made upon John de Molyns for wool, the tenth and fifteenth for
his lands, the goods and chattels in his manors for the time when they
were in the king's hand, provided that answer be made for the same before
the manors were so taken. |
Feb. 18.
Canterbury. |
To the prior of St. Fredeswyde's, Oxford, one of the collectors in the
diocese of Lincoln of the tenth granted by the clergy. Order to supersede
the levying of the portion of the tenth touching the church of Mapledureham whose fruits and issues the king has reserved to his chamber, by reason
of the appropriation of that church to the priory of Clairvaux (de Claro
Rivulo) in Normandy. By K. |
Feb. 14.
Westminster. |
To the treasurers and barons of the exchequer. Order not to intermeddle
with the manor of Chilternlangeleye, as the king reserved it to his chamber
at Michaelmas in the 10th year of the reign. By p.s. [17282.] |
Feb. 25.
Westminster. |
To John de Coggeshale, escheator in cos. Essex and Hertford. Order
not to intermeddle further with the moiety of the manor of Sencampe,
co. Hertford, or with the other lands which he took into the king's hand
by reason of the death of John de Walkefare, restoring the issues thereof
to Eufemia, late John's wife, as the king has learned by inquisition taken
by the escheator that John at his death held no lands in his demesne as
of fee or in service, in chief, but that he held the said moiety with Eufemia
as of her right, in chief, by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and
he held other lands jointly with her in co. Essex, by divers services, and
the king has taken Eufemia's fealty for the said moiety. |
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To John de Engayne of Teversham, escheator in cos. Cambridge and
Huntingdon. Order not to intermeddle further with two parts of a manor
in Iselham, co. Cambridge, as the king has learned by inquisition taken
by Warin de Bassyngbourn, late escheator in those counties, that John de
Walkefare at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee or for life,
in chief, in that bailiwick, but that he was jointly enfeoffed with Eufemia
his wife of the said two parts with reversion of the third part, of the
bishop of Rochester by the service of 11s. yearly. |
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To William de Middelton, escheator in co. Suffolk. Order not to
intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Fakenham Aspes,
co. Suffolk, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by John Howard
late escheator in that county, that John de Walkefare at his death held
no lands in chief in his demesne as of fee or in service in that county,
but that he held the said moiety as of the right of Eufemia his wife,
which she and William de la Beche acquired for themselves and the heirs
of their bodies, by the king's licence, and that the moiety is held in chief
by the service of paying 9d. every twenty weeks to the ward of Norwich
castle, and the king has taken Eufemia's fealty for that moiety. |
Feb. 28.
Westminster. |
To John Darcy 'le fitz', escheator in the liberty of Holdernesse. Order
not to distrain William de la Pole for his homage, as he has done homage
to the king for the lands which he holds in chief in Rymeswell, Beghum
and Esthalsham in Holdernesse. By p.s. [17313.] |
Feb. 27.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer, Dublin. Order, if
John Moryn, whom the king is sending to Ireland with ten men at arms
to stay there by the advice of the justiciary, shall so stay there, to pay him
his wages of war for himself and those men for a quarter of a year, and
quarterly for so long as they remain there, and in case he return to
England by the advice of the justiciary, then to pay him his reasonable
expenses for his stay there and his return, and if it be ordained that he go
to the king to parts beyond the sea, or elsewhere, with the said men, and
others of Ireland, to pay him his wages of war for himself and the said
men for a quarter of a year. By p.s. |
March 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to restore to William Kaynel, clerk, his
lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hand on his
being indicted before Robert Parvyng and his fellows, justices of oyer and
terminer in that county, of the death of Walter de Combe, as he has
purged his innocence before Robert, bishop of Salisbury, diocesan of the
place, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the
privilege of the clergy. |
March 10.
Westminster. |
To Hervey Tirel, sheriff of Devon, John Lestraunge and John Gernach,
the king's serjeant at arms. Whereas at the suit of Sanchius Dyens, lord
of a ship called 'la Seinte Marie Magdaleyne' of Pleisaunce in Spain and
burgess of that town, showing that certain malefactors of Dertemuth
in that county had attacked that ship laden with 72 tuns and a pipe of
white wine and with certain other things and goods of Sanchius and his
fellows, merchants of Spain, of the price of 350l., in thirteen ships of that
town, of which four are called, to wit, 'la Nicholas,' John Gordoun lord
and Richard Short master, 'la Neweshippe,' Thomas de Kyngesmey lord
and master, 'le Seint Jake,' Henry Whitele lord and William Combe master,
and 'la Grace Dieu,' William de Gapton of Dertmuth lord and master,
when it was going to Flanders, in a place called la Barge de Lonn, and they
took that ship with the wine and goods, throwing certain of the mariners
into the sea, did their will with the wine and goods and sunk the ship, as
may appear by public instruments and proofs, and Sanchius beseeching the
king to provide a remedy, the king, out of his friendship for the king of
Spain, appointed Hervey and John Gernache to enquire into the matter and
to restore the said wine and goods to Sanchius and give him satisfaction of
the goods of the malefactors, and Hervey and John certified that John went
with Sanchius to the tavern of Richard Gordon of Dertemuth and there
found two tuns of wine under Sanchius's seal, which had been amoved and
concealed before the arrival of the sheriff there, and the king does not wish
Sanchius to be defrauded, as he is a burgess of Pleisaunce, and in order that
the alliance with the king of Spain may not be violated by such injuries: the
king therefore orders Hervey, John and John, upon pain of forfeiture, to
compel John Gordon, Richard Short, Thomas, Henry, William, William,
Richard Gordoun and all others into whose hands the wine, goods and tackle
of the ship shall be found to have come, to satisfy Sanchius for the same or
for the price thereof if they do not exist, by imprisonment, the taking of their
lands into the king's hand and in other ways, and if they refuse to make
such restitution, then to arrest them and all their abettors, whether they be
the mayor and bailiffs or others, and have them taken to the Tower of
London, to be imprisoned there until further order, and to cause their
lands, goods and chattels to be taken into the king's hand, so that the
sheriff answer for the issues of the lands and for the goods and chattels at
the exchequer. By K. |
March 13.
Westminster. |
To John le Straunge and John Gernach, the king's serjeants at arms,
appointed to arrest ships for the king's passage, and to the mayor and
bailiffs of Fowy. Order upon pain of forfeiture to cause a ship called
'Seynt Bartelmeu' and 40 tuns 3 pipes of white and red wine and the other
goods laded therein to be dearrested without delay, and delivered to John
Peritz, burgess of Vermeu in Spain, master of the ship, and to Domyngus
Aynes, burgess and merchant of Ribadeu in Spain, if they are found to
belong to them, and if they find any resisting or contrary to them in the
taking of the ship and goods, to cause them to be taken to the Tower of
London, to be imprisoned there until further order, as the king has received
the plaint of John and Domynges, containing that whereas they went with
the said ship near St. Matthieu in Britanny and wished to cross to the
town of St. Matthieu or Brest, certain men of England in two ships and a
barge entered that ship by armed force while John and Domyngus were
at St. Matthieu on their affairs, and killed all the men and mariners in
the ship except John's son, who hid himself among the tuns through fear
of death, and so escaped alive by the aid of men entering the ship when it
reached the port of Fowy, and the ship, wine and goods are arrested for
this cause by the said serjeants, mayor and bailiffs, wherefore John and
Domyngus have besought the king to order the ship, etc. to be dearrested
and delivered to them, in consideration of the newly-contracted alliance
with the king of Spain, and it has been testified before the king and his
council by those in whom he has full confidence that the ship, wine and
goods were plundered as aforesaid. By K. |
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Feb. 16.
Westminster. |
To Master John Cok, keeper of the wardrobe. Order to deliver to John
Berenger, clerk and consul of the town of Ypres, what is in arrear to him
of his robes from 9 May in the 14th year of the reign, as he is sworn to
the king's service, saving his oath as consul to the town of Ypres, and on
the said day the king retained him of his familiar household and granted
him the yearly robes of the suit of his clerks, to be received of the wardrobe for life. |
Feb. 22.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Lucy, escheator in cos. Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancaster. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands in co. Westmorland and with the shrievalty of that county, which belonged to Robert
de Clifford, tenant in chief, restoring the issues thereof to Ralph de Nevill,
as on 16 April last the king committed to Ralph the custody of the said
lands and the shrievalty, which were in the king's hand by reason of the
minority of Robert's heir, to hold until the heir shall come of age, to wit,
for the next six years, rendering 88l. 17s. 9¼d. yearly at the exchequer, so
that if the heir die within the six years, Ralph shall have the custody until
the end of the six years, in the form aforesaid, and now Ralph has informed
the king that the escheator has taken the said lands and shrievalty into the
king's hand because the heir has died and his heir is under age, wherefore
Ralph has besought the king to order his hand to be amoved. By C. |
Feb. 26.
Westminster. |
To Th. bishop of Durham. Whereas lately at the suit of the burgomasters, échevins and consuls of Bruges showing that certain men of
Hertilpole, in the liberty of Durham, had taken by armed force a ship of
Walter Sunibbel, burgess of Lescluse in Flanders, laden in the port of
Lyet, with wool of Scotland, of Giles de Condebrok and other burgesses of
Bruges, coketted at Edinburgh when sailing towards Flanders, and having
killed the men therein, took the ship and wool to Hertilpole and did their
will therewith; the king ordered the bishop to view the king's letters and
cause the speedy complement of justice to be done to the said burgesses
nominated therein, upon the restitution of the ship and wool and to compel
the retainers of the wool to restore it, and now the king has learned from
the plaint of Hilary du Castell, attorney of Giles and his fellow burgesses,
that although he has sued before the bishop for the restoration of the ship
and wool, not without great travail and expense, yet he has not been able
to obtain restitution, but the bishop's ministers have refused justice to him:
the king, in consideration of the great services rendered to him by the men
of Bruges, and especially by Giles, and of the damage and expense which
would arise by the detention of the wool of the king and his subjects in
Flanders, orders the bishop to view and weigh the letters of the said burgomasters échevins and consuls, and to cause the attorney to have speedy
restitution of the wool and ship without delay, knowing that if speedy
restitution be not made the king will not delay to provide a remedy notwithstanding the bishop's liberty. |
